Boyd Rice vs Tim Rice

What if they had a race riot?

And all different people, of all different races:

Black

White

Yellow

Brown

Stopped their stomping and screaming long enough to call a truce

And have a barbecue.

I dreamed I met a Galilean,
A most amazing man
He had that look you very rarely find
The haunting, hunted kind
I asked him to say what had happened
How it all began
I asked again
He never said a word
As if he hadn't heard
And next the room was full
Of wild and angry men
They seemed to hate this man
They fell on him and then disappeared again
Then I saw thousands of millions
Crying for this man
And then I heard them mentioning my name
And leaving me the blame

you could freely exchange lyrics between "Total War" and "A Whole New World" and no one would bat an eye

well, ok, that's not true

only one of these wrote a whole musical about a fascist dictatorship

Siam's gonna be the witness
To the ultimate test of cerebral fitness

what if Boyd had written a Bond theme?

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i get my kicks above the waistline, sunshine!

Sometimes I confuse Boyd Rice and Damien Rice with hilarious embarrasment.

I've got a Boyd Rice record but I haven't got any Tim Rice - tho I wouldn't turn my nose up at a copy of the Jesus Christ Superstar double album

oh i take the mick but i am very fond of Evita tbh

Some say eat or be eaten
Some say live and let live
But all are agreed as they join the stampede
You should never take more than you give

I would laugh if Boyd Rice got run over by a train and I'm not the kind of guy to laugh when people get run over by trains. Tim Rice cowrote Tell Me on a Sunday. No contest here

I would laugh if Boyd Rice got run over by a train and I'm not the kind of guy to laugh when people get run over by trains

Circle of Life innit?

without Evita we wouldn't have Boris Midney's disco Evita

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIlowe123iA

what is the discoest thing to have happened as a result of Boyd Rice being born? (srs qn)

I would laugh if Boyd Rice got run over by a train and I'm not the kind of guy to laugh when people get run over by trains.

otm, he is the worst person

iirc he referred to his own son (who has velo-cardio-facial syndrome) as "my ex-wife's botched child"

he needs to slapped like a bajillion times

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possibly lurker Don Black being bitter that aero had took him off the credits for "Tell Me on a Sunday"

I'm sure aero was thinking about the version he wrote specifically for ilx, "Tuomi on a Sundae"

Does anyone know if Tim Rice is still adding to his collection of every UK number one hit single? Is there even a physical copy of every UK number one these days?

Actually I've looked on google and I can't find any reference to this collection, I'm sure it's not just something I've made up though, does anyone else remember hearing Tim Rice talk about this?
Apparently there is no longer a physical copy of every UK number one, here's story here about a man who had built up a collection of every UK number one since 1952, but has to stop because Macklemore's Thrift Shop was only released as a download:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2295089/Record-fanatics-obsessive-plan-number-single-fails-U-S-rapper-Macklemore-releases-song-download.html

Pretty sure that in the foreword of our family copy of the Guinness Book of British Hit Singles either Tim Rice or Mike Read writes about buying every new top 40 single each week or something like that. That was back in the 80s though.

Marcello would know the answer to this obviously.

I would be so sad if wasn't true, I've spent years listening to (for example) Bound 4 Da Reload and thinking 'Tim Rice owns a copy of that'.
I think I heard him mention it on Celebrity Who Wants to be a Millionaire, and yes, it was the full top 40, not just the number one.

tbf "Thrift Shop" at number 1 was probably as good a time to stop listening to the charts as any

Ian Levine claims to own every DC comic book ever published:

http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showflat/Number/873187/site_id/1#import

Marcello would know the answer to this obviously.

Third edition of Guinness ('81): Tim Rice talks about having had a standing order for every single that makes (or made) the Top 75. Given his recent remarks about "Get Lucky" ("It's just the same phrase repeated over and over," in my day, proper songwriting, fields round here etc.) I presume this no longer applies.

I have almost every UK number one since 1952 on physical, including "Thrift Shop" on The Heist CD (I mean, really, sad bobble-hatted chap, do they all HAVE to be "singles"?). Currently only have "Wake Me Up" and "Roar" on d/load because I'm waiting for the albums. I don't quite have every UK number one album because so many of the ones in the last 20 years or so have been crap, but those ones are charity shop regulars and I'll get them only when I need them (i.e. when TPL reaches them).

Top 75 - that's pretty dedicated! Wonder what the record was that made him jack the whole enterprise in (assuming he did quit it at some point).

I'm pretty sure it was a record with the word "Jack" in its title.

just saw Stewart Lee and he did a joke about celebrities with the surname Rice voting Conservative. caught myself wondering if he cycled through the possibility of working Boyd Rice into the routine

keep your hands off my material, Lee